This page provides comprehensive information about how we use cookies on our website to enhance your browsing experience, improve website performance, and deliver personalized content. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our site. They help us understand how visitors interact with our website, allowing us to offer a smoother and more efficient user experience. In the table below, you will find detailed information about each type of cookie we use, their purpose, and how long they remain on your device. We are committed to respecting your privacy and providing transparency about the data we collect through cookies. For more information on how we handle your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
Essential
Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| wpconsent_tcstring | This cookie stores the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework consent string, recording the user's choices for IAB TCF purposes and vendors. | 12 months |
| wpconsent_geolocation | This cookie is used to store the consent settings based on the visitor's location. | 30 days |
| wpconsent_preferences | This cookie is used to store the user's cookie consent preferences. | 30 days |
Bing / Microsoft
Bing, powered by Microsoft, is a search engine providing web, image, video, and map search capabilities.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year |
| MUIDB | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year |
| MC1 | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year |
| MSFPC | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year |
| _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | 30 minutes |
| _uetvid | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | 16 days |
| ANON | Contains the A, a unique identifier derived from your Microsoft account, which is used for advertising, personalization, and operational purposes. It is also used to preserve your choice to opt out of interest-based advertising from Microsoft if you have chosen to associate the opt-out with your Microsoft account. | 1 year |
| ANONCHK | Used to store session ID for a users session to ensure that clicks from adverts on the Bing search engine are verified for reporting purposes and for personalisation | 10 minutes |
| CC | Contains a country code as determined from your IP address. | 1 year |
| PPAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years |
| MSPAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years |
| MSNRPSAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years |
| KievRPSAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years |
| OID | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | 3 months |
| OIDI | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | 3 months |
| OIDR | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | 3 months |
| BCP | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year |
| BFBUSR | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year |
| BFB | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year |
| ACL | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 3 months |
| ACLUSR | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year |
| MSPTC | This cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance. | 1 year |
| WLSSC | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years |
| SRM_B | Collected user data is specifically adapted to the user or device. The usercan also be followed outside of the loaded website, creating a picture of the visitor's behavior. | 1 year |
| MSPProf | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years |
| _RwBf | This cookie helps us to track the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on the Bing advertising network. | 1 year |
| MC0 | Detects whether cookies are enabled in the browser. | End of session (browser) |
| _HPVN | Analysis service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website. | 1 year |
| MS0 | Identifies a specific session. | End of session (browser) |
| _UR | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | 1 year |
| NAP | Contains an encrypted version of your country, postal code, age, gender, language and occupation, if known, based on your Microsoft account profile. | 1 year |
| MH | Appears on co-branded sites where Microsoft is partnering with an advertiser. This cookie identifies the advertiser, so the right ad is selected. | End of session (browser) |
| childinfo | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years |
| kcdob | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years |
| kcrelid | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years |
| kcru | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years |
| pcfm | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years |
| x-ms-gateway-slice | Identifies a gateway for load balancing. | End of session (browser) |
| ToptOut | Records your decision not to receive interest-based advertising delivered by Microsoft. | 1 year |
| ACH01 | Maintains information about which ad and where the user clicked on the ad. | End of session (browser) |
| AADSSO | Microsoft Microsoft Online Authentication Cookie | End of session (browser) |
| brcap | Microsoft Microsoft Online Authentication Cookie | 1 year |
| MR | Used to collect information for analytics purposes. | 6 months |
Comments
These cookies are needed for adding comments on this website.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| comment_author | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | Session |
| comment_author_email | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | Session |
| comment_author_url | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | Session |
A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| AID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 1 year |
| FCCDCF | Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out. | 13 months |
| SID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| FCNEC | Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out. | 13 months |
| HSID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| receive-cookie-deprecation | This cookie ensures browers in an experiment group of the Chrome-facilitated testing period include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header as soon as it becomes available. | 180 days |
| 1P_JAR | These cookies are set via embedded youtube-videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. | 1 month |
| APISID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| _dcid | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 400 days |
| CONSENT | Google cookie consent tracker | 20 years |
| SAPISID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| SNID | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 6 months |
| SOCS | Stores a user's state regarding their cookies choices | 13 months |
| SSID | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| cookies_accepted | This functionality cookie is simply to verify that you have allowed us to set cookies on your machine | 1 year |
| ACCOUNT_CHOOSER | Used to sign in with Google account. | session |
| SIDCC | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. | 2 years |
| django_language | Cookie necessary for the use of the options and services of the website. | 3 month |
| SMSV | Used to sign in with Google account. | session |
| OTZ | Aggregate analysis of website visitors | 17 days |
| GN_PREF | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 1 year |
| __Host-1PLSID | Used to sign in with Google account. | 1 year |
| A | Google uses this cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers | 17 days |
| _Secure-ENID | Remembers user preferences like language, search results per page, and SafeSearch settings | 13 months |
| Secure-YEC | Serve a similar purpose for YouTube, including detecting and resolving problems | 13 months |
| CGIC | Improves search results delivery by autocompleting queries based on user input | 6 months |
| _Secure-YEC | Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creators | 13 months |
| AdID | Show Google ads on non-Google sites and personalize ads based on user settings | 2 weeks |
| DSID | Identifies signed-in users on non-Google sites to respect ad personalization settings | 2 weeks |
| gcl | Helps advertisers determine user actions on their site after clicking an ad | 90 days |
| gac | Measure user activity and ad campaign performance for advertisers | 90 days |
| __Secure-OSID | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 6 months |
| LSID | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 6 months |
| COMPASS | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 2 days |
| UULE | sends precise location information from your browser to Googles servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location. The use of this cookie depends on your browser settings and whether you have chosen to have location turned on for your browser. | 6 hours |
| OSID | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 6 months |
| __Host-3PLSID | Used to sign in with Google account. | 1 year |
| DV | This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 1 year |
| __Host-GAPS | Used to sign in with Google account. | 1 year |
| NID | This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 1 year |
| LSOLH | This cookie is for authentication with your Google account | 1 year |
| TAID | This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. | 14 days |
| g_enabled_idps | Used for Google Single Sign On | 1 year |
| FPGCLDC | Used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site | 90 days |
| G_AUTHUSER_H | Google Authentication | session |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
| __Secure-ENID | Used by Google to prevent fraudulent login attempts. This also contains a Google user ID which can be used for statistics and marketing purposes following a successful login | 11 Months |
| _gcl_dc | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | SameSite prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection against cross-site request forgery attacks. | session |
| GCLB | This cookie is used in context with load balancing - This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers. | Session |
Google Ads
Google Ads is an online advertising platform that enables businesses to create targeted ads displayed on Google search results and partner sites.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Profiles the interests of website visitors to serve relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. | 2 years |
| AEC | AEC cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user's knowledge. | 6 months |
| ADS_VISITOR_ID | Cookie required to use the options and on-site web services | 2 months |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSIDTS | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PSIDTS | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSID | Targeting cookie. Used to profile the interests of website visitors and display relevant and personalised Google ads. | 2 years |
| Conversion | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 90 days |
| _gcl_aw | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 90 Days |
| _gcl_gs | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 90 Days |
| _gcl_gb | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 90 Days |
| _gac_gb_ | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 90 Days |
| FPGCLGB | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 90 Days |
| FPGCLAW | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 90 Days |
| __Secure-1PSID | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years |
Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager simplifies the management of marketing tags on your website without code changes.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| cookiePreferences | Registers cookie preferences of a user | 2 years |
| td | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | session |
Login
These cookies are used for managing login functionality on this website.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress_logged_in | Used to store logged-in users. | Persistent |
| wordpress_sec | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | 15 days |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Used to determine if cookies are enabled. | Session |
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform for email campaigns, automation, and audience management.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| mc_cid | Mailchimp campaign ID | 14 days |
| mc_eid | Mailchimp email ID | 14 days |
| mc_landing_site | Page visitor entered your site on | 14 days |
Microsoft Clarity
Clarity is a web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| ANONCHK | Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0. | Session |
| CLID | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. | 12 months |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | 12 months |
| _clck | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID. | 12 months |
NGINX Ingresss
NGINX Ingress manages external access to services in a Kubernetes cluster, enabling scalable and efficient routing.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| INGRESSCOOKIE | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | session |
PHP.net
PHP.net is the official website for PHP, offering documentation, downloads, and community support for the PHP programming language.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. | Sessions |
| __Secure-PHPSESSID | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. | Sessions |
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a customizable eCommerce platform for building online stores using WordPress.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | 2 days |
| woocommerce_recently_viewed | Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget | session |
| store_notice | Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice. | session |
| woocommerce_snooze_suggestions__ | Allows dashboard users to dismiss Marketplace suggestions, if enabled. | 2 days |
| woocommerce_dismissed_suggestions__ | Count of suggestion dismissals, if enabled. | 1 month |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | session |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | session |
WordPress
A powerful content management system for creating and managing websites easily and efficiently.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| tk_tc | JetPack sets this cookie to record details on how user's use the website. | session |
| wp-settings- | Used to persist a user’s wp-admin configuration. | 1 Year |
| wporg_logged_in | Used to check whether the current visitor is a logged-in WordPress.org user. | 14 days if you select “Remember Me” when logging in. Otherwise, Session. |
| wporg_sec | Used to check whether the current visitor is a logged-in WordPress.org user. | 14 days if you select “Remember Me” when logging in. Otherwise, Session. |
| wporg_locale | Used to persist a user’s locale configuration. | 1 year |
| welcome- | Used to record if you’ve chosen to hide the “Welcome” message at the top of the corresponding blog. | permanent |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Cookie set by WordPress to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users | session |
| trac_session | Used to keep anonymous session information. | 90 days |
| codexToken | Used to check whether the current visitor is a logged-in WordPress.org user. Only set if you select “Keep me logged in” when logging in. | 6 months |
| codexUserId | Used to check whether the current visitor is a logged-in WordPress.org user. | 6 months |
| codexUserName | Used to check whether the current visitor is a logged-in WordPress.org user. | 6 months |
| camptix_client_stats | Used to track unique visitors to tickets page on a WordCamp site | 1 year |
| wp-saving-post | Used to track if there is saved post exists for a post currently being edited. If exists then let user restore the data | 1 day |
| comment_author_ | Used to tracked comment author name, if “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” is checked | 347 days |
| comment_author_url_ | Used to track comment author url, if “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” checkbox is checked | 347 days |
| wp-postpass_ | Used to maintain session if a post is password protected | 10 days |
| wp-settings-time- | Time at which wp-settings-{user} was set | 1 year |
| tix_view_token | Used for session managing private CampTix content | 2 days |
| jetpackState | Used for maintaining Jetpack State | session |
| jpp_math_pass | Verifies that a user answered the math problem correctly while logging in. | session |
| stnojs | Remember if user do not want JavaScript executed | 2 days |
| showComments | Used to determine if you prefer comments to be shown or hidden when reading the site. | 10 years |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | Remember User session | session |
| trac_form_token | Used as a security token for cross-site request forgery protection. | session |
| devicePixelRatio | Used to make the site responsive to the visitor’s screen size. | 1 year |
| tk_qs | JetPack sets this cookie to store a randomly-generated anonymous ID which is used only within the admin area and for general analytics tracking. | 30 minutes |
| tk_lr | Jetpack - Stores the unique identifier for the publisher to enable Jetpack to collect data. | 1 year |
| tk_or | Jetpack - Stores the unique identifier for the publisher to enable Jetpack to collect data. | 5 Years |
| tk_r3d | JetPack installs this cookie to collect internal metrics for user activity and in turn improve user experience. | 3 days |
WPML
WPML is a powerful plugin that enables multilingual capabilities for WordPress sites, enhancing global reach and user experience.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| wp-wpml_current_language | This cookie is used to track the language preference fo the user | session |
Statistics
Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us understand how visitors use our website.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful tool that tracks and analyzes website traffic for informed marketing decisions.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes |
| __utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes after last activity |
| __utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | End of session (browser) |
| __utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months after last activity |
| __utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months |
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gali | Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked | 30 seconds |
| _ga_ | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 1 minute |
WooCommerce Sourcebuster
SourceBuster is used by WooCommerce for order attribution based on user source.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| sbjs_session | The number of page views in this session and the current page path | 30 minutes |
| sbjs_udata | Information about the visitor’s user agent, such as IP, the browser, and the device type | session |
| sbjs_first | Traffic origin information for the visitor’s first visit to your store (only applicable if the visitor returns before the session expires) | session |
| sbjs_current | Traffic origin information for the visitor’s current visit to your store | session |
| sbjs_first_add | Timestamp, referring URL, and entry page for your visitor’s first visit to your store (only applicable if the visitor returns before the session expires) | session |
| sbjs_current_add | Timestamp, referring URL, and entry page for your visitor’s current visit to your store | session |
| sbjs_migrations | Technical data to help with migrations between different versions of the tracking feature | session |
